[_uhtu]

The book "Learn you a Haskell for great good!", Which is in my opinion an essential read for someone wanting to get into functional programming, describes it as "imperitive is when you tell the computer a sequence of operations to get a result. FP Is when you tell the computer what thingsare.

I think it should basically be required reading for any programmer, it's a very easy to follow look into the functional paradigm. It's also free to read online! http://learnyouahaskell.com

[throwaway7645]

I own a copy and can't help but disagree. It goes over a few things like list comprehensions, types, etc, but I couldn't even stumble through writing a basic Haskell program when finished.I'm looking forward to Manning's Grokking Functional Programming if it ever comes out. The Haskell Book is also popular these days.

[_uhtu]

Really? It gave me a great grasp of the language and syntax and I was able to write some basic things immediately after, and anything I didn't know how to do (like communicate over a socket, etc.) I could google search.

[codygman]

Highly recommend http://Haskellbook.com